WORDS WORDS LET'S MAKE WORDS. i taught my first [trial] class yesterday. there were 4 boys & 2 girls. they are all about 10 years old. i invented a curriculum a few days ago and started teaching them what i thought they should be learning. afterwards, we played a game to practice forming english words. the boys in the class fought over the chalk as they were all ridiculously eager to write their answers on the board. they were all screaming and laughing. the class became pretty chaotic. i tried so hard to encourage the two girls to go up and participate but they wouldn't. one of them speaks in whispers. writing on a chalkboard is actually a lot harder than it looks. my hand doesn't seem to want to tilt that way.